Accordingly, for the first time in the national carrier’s history, and as part of its Business Continuity Management System, Gulf Air has successfully accomplished a disaster recovery simulation exercise of failing over the Core IT systems hosted at Gulf Air’s on-premise Data Center to AWS Cloud, proceeding with performing normal operations, then failback to Gulf Air’s on-premise Data Center with no interruption to the airline’s operations. 

The exercise was conducted by adopting a hybrid model of ‘Work Remotely’ and ‘Work from Office’, as various business functions were involved in this exercise, including the Aircraft Maintenance Control Center (MCC), Engineering, Planning, Material, Records, Quality Assurance, Integrated Operations Center (IOC), Flight Dispatch, Crew Control, Airport Support Unit (ASU), Central Reservation Center (CRC), Finance, Human Resource (HR), and Information Technology. 

The announcement falls in line with the airline’s growing ambition to accelerate its digital transformation journey by way of adopting competitive digital solutions across the board.